Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

May Games

New kit?

Guessing that means the new kit will be a striped one, like the one from the '84 Rome European Cup Final season.

<edit> oh and, with a rewatch, obviously with the stripes on his little tea cup, probably an update on the 84 design with those bits of slanted horizontal lines in there too.

Riddle solved 👍️

6 out of the top 10 scorers in PL are English, made anagrams out of them to hide who they are

Locale Perm

Saintlike Owl

Iceland Kimonos

Banjo Reword

Fondle Hip

Kayak Boa Us

Booo

That was a great CL game and very enjoyable it has to be said. I have to get myself over to Dortmund for a game sometime soon.

Also, Dortmund just confirmed themselves a CL place for 5th?

Hopefully it's not the kit that has been leaked because that is a crime.

And I'm too old to give a s*it but Nike have really made one of the worst home jerseys I've ever seen for any team if it is.

Showed it to my young lad and he taught I was messing with him. The horror in his face lol!

Fingers crossed 🤞

IS this the new kit

Yep, confirmed 🙂

I think Klopp is a genius when it comes to matters on the football pitch and managing the players, but he is also a flawed individual. Man City financial doping or FSG refusing to spend money are easy excuses to explain the difficulties of Klopp's Liverpool, but he should never have been given control over player recruitment.

He stated several times that the money was available but he didn't want to spend it. The fact that serious money was spent on the midfield last summer supports the argument that money was not the issue.

The former chairman of Dortmund, Watzke, said that Klopp was obstinate about transfer targets, if they couldn't sign the player he wanted he would sulk and forego signing an alternative option until their transfer committee or the coaches could persuade him otherwise. That is the same behaviour he has exhibited in his time at Liverpool.

He was willing to go without signing a player in 2017 because Julian Brandt chose not to join Liverpool. Edwards and the analytics team spent weeks convincing him to sanction the signing of Salah.

Ragnar Klavan and Dejan Lovren both left without being replaced because Klopp didn't see the need. He was happy with the players he had and Joe Gomez was available to supplement Matip and van Dijk. There was also Nat Phillips and Rhys Williams if needed. The defending league champions went into the new season with three senior central defenders, two of whom had a history of being unavailable for long spells. Was Klopp high on the euphoria of having won the league at a canter? When the three centre backs got injured he chose to gut the midfield rather than trust Phillips and Williams. The season took a nose dive and only when he was forced to field the two of them and restore the midfield did the team stop shipping goals and got back to winning games.

In 2022, Klopp got in a spat with the journalists at a press conference over the need for a midfielder. His challenge to them was to name a better midfield player than the main trio that was available to sign. That was the epitome of arrogance, the point that was put to him was the need for a player other than James Milner to supplement main trio. There were at least three midfield players who were not physically up to the challenge of consistently appearing in the team. It was obvious to everyone that at least one physically capable midfield player was required, Thiago, Jones, Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Keita were all injured. A few weeks later, Henderson suffered a hamstring injury and Klopp's comment on the matter in the following press conference was along the lines of "What do you want me to say? You were right, I was wrong, we need another midfield player. Happy now?".

I will contend that that reason players weren't signed was because the players he wanted to work with were not available or weren't interested in signing for him/Liverpool.

the collars are getting no love . Mind you if we had won the league the shirt would sell out now people can afford to be more critical .

They look odd, is the best way I can put it, but hopefully it is one of those that once it is on the players and on the pitch it makes more sense and looks better.

That Collar , 😵

It's like the front of the shirt needs pulling down, as if it's all bundled up through a tackle.😅

Not a fan of that jersey at all. Makes me miss Warrior it’s that bad.

Has Nike made a nice home jersey in the last few years?

i think he starts for PSG, and probably Dortmund.

But regardless, I don't think he'll be what we want him to be. I hope I'm wrong, but it's not looking likely.

Didn't Joyce report that Chelsea tried to buy Nunez last summer, after his first (worse performing) season? I don't doubt that other CL level clubs would be interested in him this summer myself, after a better season.

We've seen plenty of examples of players not cutting it in the PL but being big successes elsewhere. His fellow countryman Diego Forlan probably the best example.

This video has cropped up on my timeline the last day or so. Has this been coached out of him? The natural finishes don't seem to be as prevalent these days as in this clip. He's clearly a confidence player. When he is confident, he takes that early shot and doesn't over think it and second guess himself.

Was there some here worried that spurs could over take us?

At least we have CL next season, CL but not as we know it, different format next season, a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view. Each side will play eight matches against eight different teams , four at home and four away, between September and January, on four different continents, Asia, Australia, Antartica & South America

What a weird feeling heading into this weekends fixtures with little to play for; 3 games left and we're done in terms of title contention. Yet if you consider odd refereeing decisions in just 3 games (Spurs away, Arsenal home, City home), and the possible 7 point swing as a result (also meaning -1 each for City & Arsenal), in an alternate world we would be on 82 points, Arsenal on 79, City 78. Oh well!

Also, who's to say if we hadn't taken more points in those 3 games (like we should have), that our heads wouldn't have dropped over the last few weeks? Confidence breeds confidence, just look at Leverkusen in Germany…. when it goes for you, it goes for you. If we had not been ripped off in those 3 games in particular, I think we would be in cruise mode right now imo, and dare I say, still in at least one of either the FA Cup or Europa League. Margins, margins…